Transnational Companies and Switzerland
As is widely known, the international level lacks legally binding instruments to coerce enterprises to respect human rights. The guidelines defined by...
In Uzbekistan cotton is harvested with the aid of government-organised child labour. Every year the Uzbek state summons up between 1.5 and 2 million c...
Activities of private security service providers active abroad are to be prohibited, as long as they are not in line with Swiss interests. On 12 Octob...
The Federal Council and the parliament have to create a necessary legal basis so companies domiciled in Switzerland are required by law to respect hum...
On its website «Banks and Human Rights», the Berne Declaration (BD) has been documenting and analysing controversial financing by Credit S...
Up to now, the publicity-shy commodities trader Glencore was always able to avoid to cause too much disturbance on a legal and political level, despit...
Copper, cobalt and numerous other precious raw materials can be found on some of the world’s poorest countries’ territories. Since most of...
On 9 November 2010, Switzerland invited the most important private military and security companies to sign a pioneering code of conduct in Geneva. The...
An international code of conduct for private military and security companies is finally within reach. After the security industry published a declar...
More than 21 000 persons have signed the Berne Declaration’s petition « For clothes produced in dignity ». The petition calls the Swiss mode industr...
Two Switzerland based organisations fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples, the Bruno-Manser-Fonds (BMF) and the Society for Threatened Peopl...
The Swiss pharma company Novartis filed two cases challenging the rejection of their patent application and the Indian Patent Law in May 2006. Novar...
In June 2010, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published a study commissioned by a coalition of ten Swiss NGOs which examines whether Switzerl...
